Chapter 7
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"GREGGY, LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Jake shout and catch his cousin before he could follow Frederic. "I've said he is okay! Why you attacked him?"
"You didn't see that he had a weapon?" Greggy said.
"That was a toilet-brush you... awww... we have to find him!" Jake said angrily " He is the only one who know Pandarus plans."
Jake walk, in his human form, threw the little wood where Frederic had to be. Frederic had to be very shocked. First Jake told him that dragons are friendly and than his stupid cousin attacked him.
"FREDERIC! FREDERIC! It's all okay! Come out!" Jake yells. And after a few seconds he saw Frederic come out of the bushes, holding the toilet-brush like a weapon. "Sorry, my cousin is really...foolish. It's all okay."
"Really?" Frederic asked with a quite, terrified voice.
"Yes! Now come, he want to pardon!" Jake said and brought Frederic back to his aunt and cousin who both excused and told the reason.
"I can't belive that that should be a weapon." Frederic said and shows the toilet-brush.
"By the way... that's ours!" Jake's aunt shout and take away him the brush.
All walked into the house and sit down on the kitchen table. Frederic look around and think: 'Wow! Rotwood ever told that dragon's lives in caves.' Jake's aunt served some drinks and give Frederic a different drink: It had another color. He thankes and drunk in completelly. After a few seconds he start to talk:
"Hmmm... very delicious. I know it's new for me, but I ever thaught that dragons drink the water from seas or rivers and steal some animals from farms and eat them alive.... why I've said that..." everybody looked confused on Frederic. "But I'm very surprised, because our mythology-teacher ever told us that dragons have to be the most stupid creatures on this planet, but I never thaught so, the most stupid creature on this planet have to be Brad... ohhh I wish I could him..." but than Frederic coughed and stop talk. Jake look angrily at his aunt.
"What was in the glass?"
"Some truth-potion. I want to find out more above him." she said.
Frederic who still had to say the truth, because of the potion, start to tell a short version of his life: " Well, my father worked on the US-consulate in Sarajevo, Jugoslavia. My mother is Bosnian. I was born on 17th December 1991 also there. Then we all three flew, because of the war there, in March 1993, threw a tunnel out of the city, we almost died. Than I grown up in New York, where I had many problems with that Brad-Morton-guy since I am 5 years old. Than..."
"Okay, Frederic that's enough!" Jake said and took a piece of paper. "Can you, approximate, show me how Pandarus' hideout looks."
Frederic drawn something on the paper, but he didn't stop to tell his life-story.
"...and when I was 7 years old, I had an appendectomy. But the doctor didn't give me enough amnestesia-drugs so I woke up and I could fell how they got with thier hands into my body and..."
"FREDERIC IT'S OKAY!" everybody shout.
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The two marauders, who work for Pandarus, arrive the secret entry to his hideout near the town centre. It was a old dumpster. When they opened it and jump into it the floor of the dumpster start to sink. So they travel, like in an elevator to the secret caves of Pandarus, more than 600 feet under the ground. The last what they saw before they start to sink into the ground was that a second black-dust-cloud grown up above the mountain.
"What do you think? Should we tell it the boss?" one asked.
"Why? He would say: my scientologysts said...bla...bla...bla...and that are maybe only a few burning houses on the mountain...bla..bla...bla..."
During they talked many people realize the black-clouds above the old volcano. Now the people start to got in panic. Although many ships, yachts and cutters in the near come to help with the evacuation, it would be need hours or days before the island would be completelly evacuated. They need more time.
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The Longs still sat in front of the TV and listen the news from the humans-world above the disaster. Sun sended them, also threw the phone a big file with papers above the island. Than Jonathan found something interresting:
"Honey, what time is it and what day we have?" he asked.
"11:22am, Sunday. Why?" she asked back.
"Here is something: The volcano could be errupt between 24 and 30 hours after he reactivated. The earthquake was around 3am, right, in the night from Saturday to Sunday, more than 8 hours ago." Jonathan tells and point at the note in the file.
"And..." Haley said shocked "...that means the mountain could be explode today night. Between 3 and 9 am. In around 16-22 hours."
"Oh my god. We should warn Jake that he had to hurry." Susan said and take the phone.
"Wait honey there is more." Jonathan said and read: "To prevent a much terrible erruption, the local-magical-community build a special tunnel to the magma-chamber of the mountain to reduce the pressure, if it necessary. But someone have to open a special-safety valve. The intensity of the erruption could be reduce than more than 50 %."
"50%? That would be enough that the people there could survive. And the island wouln't be broke down. Maybe." Haley said.
"And where is that valve?" Susan asked.
Jonathan read again: "The magical-comunity hide it in the cellar of an hotel in the humans-world...ahhh... hopefully it doesn't destroyed... but the valve have to be open more than 3 hours before the possible erruption time to arrive the maximum effect... That means around midnight, today night."
"Okay, I say it Jake."
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In aunt Cathy's house Frederic still couldn't stop to tell about his life.
"...and when I was 11: Brad Morton pushed me down a stair in the central-park, I broke both arms, my parents wanted to denounce Brad, but his father... ahkoucfkdk..." Frederic stop to tell after he coughed again often and a short white shine appeared in his mouth: the truth serum lost it's effects. "What did I say?"
"You told us your bad life. Around 1 hour you explain me that I should be happy that I don't know Brad Morton." Greggy said with a boring voice.
"Greggy!... you drawn something during you talk about your life. That have to be his hideout." Jake said.
"Ohhh.. yes... how it looks... here!" Frederic gave Jake the paper after he drawn more than one hour on it, and Jake was really surprised: it looked very professionaly and artistically. It looked like Frederic has many professional skills in art. "Well," Frederic start to explain and pointed on the drawning "I could saw a man and a woman, bind up on a table and it move. Pandarus stood there but at that moment he took a step right to press some buttons, so I could see more. Than, this on the top looked like a big green sphere..." Jake saw it himself, that picture was a great illustration of that what Frederic could see "...ahhh... and short time I saw that dumpster increasing, like an elevator, threw a gate in the celling."
"That's it!" Jake said. "That must be Pandarus' employee entrace. What did you drawn there?" Jake asked and took a magnifying glass to read the word on the container: "Maruba Bar, yes... Frederic you are marvelous, now we have to find out where that Bar is than we found Pandarus hideout."
"Ohhh.. thank you... there is many the people don't know about me, it would surprise them. But your little secret, tops mine a lot..."
Frederic was interrupted by Jakes mobile. Jake took it and start to talk:
"Yes!"
"Jake it's me." His fathers voice appear "We found out a way to safe the people there, hopefully."
"And what? We have to hurry, we know where Pandarus hideout is!" Jake said fast.
"Jake, when the volcano errupt, the island could be sink into the ocean. Than nobody will survive."
"Oh...my...god! Okay what's that way?" Jake asked.
"Well, there is a tunnel, build by the local-magical-community to reduce the pressure in the mountain. The magma would be send directly into the ocean and the volcano-erruption would be weaker. There is a valve, under a hotel near the beach in the village at the northernmost point of the island, in the humans world. It must open before midnight."
"Midnight! Okay that's enough time. At the moment we are at aunt Cathy's house..." Jake took a map. "...and we needed around 5 hours to arrive here so we could arrive the island in around 6 or 7 hours...awww maan!" Jake moans. "That's to long, for them and for me."
"Well," aunt Cathy said "I think I know a way how you got faster thier."
Everybody look at her. When she show a case with the word: 'Emergency' on it and give Jake a little brown bottle with some powder in it.
"What is that?" he asked.
"A emergency potion for dragons. One teaspoon in 100 milliliter water. Than you can fly three times as fast as normal. First I wanted to give it Greggy before his sport exam but his teacher surprised me..."
"MOM!" Greggy said "Oh thank you, that you wanted to cheat for me." Greggy said and hug his mother. Frederic looked confused on Jake and he whispers: "Okay, he is a little bit how Rotwood explained."
"Okay, what do you say?" Jakes aunt asked him.
"And Frederic? The speed could pull apart him!" Jake said and Frederic got tottally white.
"Let's read the manual... ahmmm... a here... passengers have to drink the half dose."
"Okay, let's try it." Jake said and everybody walk out to the beach in front of the house. Jake and Frederic hold thier glasses and drunk the ugly-taste cocktail at the same time. When Jake transformed and Frederic bind up himself on his back again Cathy give him a little box with 2 sandwiches and a bottle of water.
"Your, mother would never forgive me when I send you hungry on that yourney, Jake." she said and give Frederic the box who lay it into the backpack. "Well, good flight!" she said and both wink when Jake start to fly.
It was a so fast start that they produced a more than 5 feet deep crater in the sand. Both could see that they flew faster than before, and higher. Frederic cries. But Jake still increase into the blue sky. When Jake stop to increase, Frederic look at the clock and was really surprised: 30000 feet high and more than 600 m/ph fast. That would be confirmed when they revise a passenger-plane next to them.
"And what is the plan?" Frederic asked.
"Let's talk about it." Jake anserwed.
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End of Chapter 7
Okay, I know... it will be a long story. But I promise, that the end will be dramatically. Have they a chance to rescue them? And the people on the island, are they totally safe after using the valve? Or still in serious trouble?
Please rewiew! Please!
